All Alpkit articles
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OpinionThe circular economy: How well are outdoor brands actually doing it?
The buzzword of the corporate social responsibility teams has now been part of the diction for a decade – but how have brands fared with circularity? Has the word become as meaningless as sustainability has (which means all things to all people)? Circular economy is also being greenwashed The most ...
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ArticleAlpkit: An outdoor brand building success through community
Alpkit is reaping rewards from its event-based community. We look at how building a community can help generate and retain customers.
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ArticleAlpkit opens tenth store
British B-Corp Alpkit opened its tenth and northernmost store at Ledge Climbing Gym in Inverness on April 15. Alpkit, a digital-focused brand founded in 2004, creates community hubs in outdoor activity hotspots such as the Lake District, Peak District and Snowdonia. Alpkit currently has nine other stores in the U.K., ...
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ArticleAlpkit launches wetsuit recycling with Circular Flow
After 7 years of manufacturing wetsuits, British outdoor and cycling brand and retailer Alpkit has partnered with Circular Flow to recycle old wetsuits into new, reused products. As open-water swimming booms and consumers spend more money on outdoor sports, more neoprene ends up in the trash each year. 20,000 more ...
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News briefsAlpkit publishes sustainability report 2022
Source: Alpkit U.K. brand Alpkit has published its sustainability report 2022, an illustrated book that is mainly consumer-facing and aims for an understandable overview of the company’s sustainability journey, although following the GRI reporting standards more closely than before. In the compact report, the certified B Corp ...
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ArticleSporting goods industry supports earthquake relief measures in Turkey and Syria
9,210 apparel, footwear and textile manufacturers were located around the epicenter of the 7.8 and 7.7-magnitude earthquakes, which caused widespread damage across Turkey and northern Syria when they hit during the night of Feb. 6, 2023, according to the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre. Many retailers have already committed ...
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OpinionSustainability Reports: Greenwashing, job creating, or doing good?
For those who want to find them, outdoor brands are now producing reports about their impacts. Just like a business has to produce its company accounts on a regular basis to demonstrate that they are operating legitimately, there is now a push for more than just profit-and-loss financial figures. Fortunately, ...
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News briefsAlpkit raises £1.5 million in funding
Alpkit, the British outdoor and cycling brand and retailer, has secured £1.5m (€1.7m) from the Midlands Engine Investment Fund (MEIF). The new funding will help it strengthen seasonal inventory acquisition and product development in the footwear and e-bike lines. It will also enable the company to take over its bike ...
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News briefsAlpkit meets funding target in less than eight minutes, plans new product categories
At the end of October, British outdoor and cycling brand Alpkit invited its customers to become shareholders in the company. The investment campaign was open for just eight minutes when the company reached its target of £750,000 (around €855,000). In less than an hour, Alpkit had raised £1.6m (€1.83m) from ...
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ArticleAlpkit launches second crowdfunding; invites customers to join as shareholders
On Oct. 24, British outdoor and cycling brand Alpkit will once again invite its customers to participate as shareholders via crowdfunding. The company launched a first of its kind in 2020, reaching its target in just eight minutes and closing the round 43 minutes later with 1350 customers as shareholders ...
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ArticleAlpkit receives growth funding, plans to launch footwear this summer
Nottingham-based outdoor brand Alpkit has received £2.7 million (€3.2m) in funding from HSBC UK, backed by UK Export Finance (UKEF), the U.K.’s export credit agency and a ministerial department of the UK government, to support its domestic and international growth. Alpkit said it will use the funds to buy more ...
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News briefsAlpkit sets new CO2 reduction targets for 2025
Source: Alpkit website U.K. outdoor brand Alpkit , based in Nottinghamshire, has published new science-based targets to reduce its absolute emissions by 46 percent from pre-pandemic levels within the next few years. The company aims to also reduce value chain impacts by committing to a ‘per ...
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Alpkit opens its first Scottish store
Alpkit has opened a new store in Edinburgh, not far from the iconic Arthur’s Seat volcano in Holyrood Park. It is the sixth store of the outdoor brand, based in Nottinghamshire, England, and its first in Scotland. In a statement published on its website, the company described its Scottish ...
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Alpkit releases sustainability report
Alpkit , an outdoor brand based in Nottinghamshire, England, founded in 2004 and operating its own factory in Nottingham, has published its 2021 sustainability report. Among the most notable CSR achievements of the previous year was the brand becoming a B Corp . Alpkit, which operates under the mantra “Leave ...
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Alpkit to expand into Scotland in 2021
Alpkit , an outdoor brand from Nottinghamshire, England, has announced plans to open its first Scottish store in Edinburgh early next year. The store, which will be located on Edinburgh’s Causewayside, is reportedly recruiting 12 staff members. In addition to selling gear to hike, climb, camp, run, swim and cycle, ...
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News briefsAlpkit receives B Corp certificate
We had just reported in July that the British outdoor and bike brand Alpkit was able to raise £1.5 million (€1.6m-$1.9m) in an investment campaign launched on the CrowdCube funding platform. Part of the news was that Alpkit wants to achieve B Corporation Certification by 2022. ...
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News briefsBritish outdoor brand Alpkit raises €1.6 million on crowdfunding platform
In an investment campaign launched on the CrowdCube investment platform on June 29, British outdoor and bike brand Alpkit was able to raise £1.5m (€1.6m-$1.9m) and surpass its crowdfunding target in less than eight minutes. With the campaign, Alpkit, whose range includes gear to run, hike, climb, camp, ...
